In the case of YouTube, only after a few results they become completely unrelated to my search.
Has anyone else noticed how search quality on YouTube and Google have worsened?
2 months ago by nerdhd to c/asklemmy
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finallymadeanaccount 2 points 2 months ago
Extensions are your friend. I've had to install several just to make YouTube useable!
solrize 3 points 2 months ago
I'd be interested to know if there's a way to fix this issue with extensions. Do you mean browser extensions? I use a browser sometimes and newpipe sometimes.
Using a browser and ublock origin, I find viewing youtube to work ok except for the occasional age gated video that I can't view without a google account. What's stopped working is search ordering and seeing timestamps. Like old comments might get labelled "2 years ago" with mouse-over no longer showing the actual date/time. It's not shown in the unrendered HTML in any obvious way either.
finallymadeanaccount 4 points 2 months ago
Not commnenting on the efficacy of the following for everyone, but they help me:
Disable Autoplay for YouTube https://chromewebstore.google.com/...
Return YouTube Dislike https://chromewebstore.google.com/...
U-Block Origin, obviously (still works fully on Brave Browser) https://ublockorigin.com/
Untrap for YouTube (Block YouTube Shorts & Remove Recommendations) https://chromewebstore.google.com/...
YouTube Channel Blocker https://chromewebstore.google.com/...
YouTube Upload Time https://chromewebstore.google.com/...
YTBlock - Block any content from YouTube https://chromewebstore.google.com/...
Some of these probably cross over in what they do, but I can't be arsed delving into the nooks and crannies of them, so long as they do the job for me.
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Dunno about Google but Youtube seems to be making some things harder on purpose, like seeing the date of a video or showing search results in chronological order.
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